Chapter 45 Joy in the Cave of the Rocks

Witt followed the robbers deep into the mountains and forests, and came to a rock pile, where as far as the eye could see, there seemed to be only rocks, and there was nothing strange about it. The robbers' lair was hidden in a rock cave in a rock pile, and the entrance of the cave was covered by rocks, making it an excellent hiding place.

Witt had thought that the bandits' den must be some shameless men, all of them with hideous faces, fangs, and bloody things. There are too many gaps between the imaginable hiding place and reality, which makes Witt also dumbfounded. I saw a large number of women gathered at the entrance of the cave, busy with the smoker. The children frolicked around a few kind-eyed old men sitting on the rocks, and the women sometimes looked up at the frolicking children, and they talked happily with each other, and the scene was very lively.

Seeing the lively scene in front of him, Witt was indeed stunned, he had grown so big, even in Fesdena, he had never seen such a warm scene. Here, what Witt sees is not the oppression of the people, not the exploitation of the people, but the peace and contentment of the residents. Witt was more surprised than curious. Why is the nest behind those murderous robbers so cozy and cozy? All of this seems to be contrary to logic, which is difficult for Witt to accept.

When Witt followed the bandits into the crowd's sight, the men, women, and children welcomed everyone, especially the strong man. The strong man's posture in the face of Witt suddenly disappeared, and the reversal was a kind of amiability. The strong man picked up a smaller little girl and teased her, and an old man who was over the age of sixteen brought a bowl of water to the strong man.

That night, after Witt and his party had dinner with the group of men, women and children, the strong man arranged accommodation for Witt and his party. The cave was so large that forty or fifty men, women and children spent the night in the cave until dawn. There is a special staff vigil late at night in case of unpreparedness.

After a week, Witt found that everyone who lived in the cave called the strong man "Great Chief", and as far as Witt knew, everyone here did not know the real name of the Great Chief, only that the Great Leader had been living in the Cave before the cave people came. The cave people were refugees before they came here, and they were persecuted by the bandits and bandits around them, and it was the great leader who took them in and organized them to resist the persecution of the outlaws, so everyone was grateful and respected him.

Before he first came to the cave, Witt didn't really plan to teach this group of people the art of bowing and arrows, but after getting to know them, Witt felt that this group of people was just a derivative of this era, and they would only do something dehumanizing in order to survive. Because this era is like this, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, being kind to the enemy is cruel to oneself, perhaps it is because of this background of the times that they lost their trust in strangers, and it almost brewed the tragedy of persecution of Witt and his party.

Although the cave dwellers are very secluded and safe, the living conditions here are very poor, and the surrounding area is basically rocky and cliffy, and there is a lack of water and it is difficult to farm. The drinking water of the cave people is transported from a small stream two kilometers away, which is time-consuming and laborious. Unable to farm and lacking food, looting past unidentified convoys became an important source of food. But when it comes to past travelers or refugees who are also poor, they often don't do it, and sometimes they do it to help.

After spending a long time with them and seeing their plight, Witt slowly began to sympathize with them. Witt wanted to teach the cavemen the art of bowing and arrows for hunting, in order to solve the problem of food sources and also to reduce their persecution of the innocents in the past. Witt had intermittently taught the three Rum brothers archery skills when he was in Twin Peaks, so the three brothers were better at this than the others, so it was only natural that Witt asked the Grand Leader for a bow for each of them, in order to solve the problem of food sources for the cave people more quickly.

In order to solve the problem of water transportation in the cave, Witt went to the vicinity of the nearest creek to the cave and made an automatic device out of bamboo to transport water over a long distance. Witt set up a wooden roller in the deep and turbulent part of the stream, the diameter of the roller is about two meters, and there are nearly twenty bamboo tubes hanging on the edge of the circular roller, and there is an isolation layer in the middle of each bamboo tube, isolating the bamboo tube into two opposing containers, one large and one small. The exit direction of the small container is opposite the direction of the river, and the bamboo tube is fixed on rollers, which is the case for more than 20 bamboo tubes. When the stream flows, it will drive the bamboo tube to move, which will drive the rotation of the whole roller. The rotating roller drives one side of the large container of bamboo tube to scoop up the stream, rotate 180 degrees, and then pour it into the river again. Witt also asked the cave dwellers to help cut down the bamboo, cutting it in half along the diameter and breaking down the barrier in the middle of the bamboo tube so that water could flow along the bamboo poles. Finally, Wittur placed the bamboo pole under the rollers that had broken the barrier, and aimed it at the water that had fallen in mid-air on the rollers, so that the water scooped up by the rollers could be transported through the bamboo poles. Layers of bamboo poles are stacked on top of each other and stretch for two kilometers through the forest before reaching the cave.

In order to complete this set of water conveyance devices, it took Witt and the cave residents half a month to realize the automatic transportation of stream water. Witt had tried to dig a well for water, but the cave was surrounded by rocks and there were no more tools at his disposal, so he had to give up. Bamboo water delivery is perhaps the best solution.

It has to be said that since the establishment of this water delivery system, the cave people no longer have to spend a lot of labor and time to solve the headache of water problems, and at the same time, they can spare more labor to solve the problem of food sources. Because of this, although Witt was new to the cave, the cavemen were wary of it, but Witt's performance in the past month made the cavemen respect his talents, making Witt's prestige in the hearts of the cavemen second only to the big leader.

The Grand Leader was also very grateful for what Witt had done, but he did not say so. Although the Great Leader is friendly to the cave people, he is also a true bandit who loves face, hypocrisy, jealousy, and is very cruel to strangers. When Witt's prestige in the crowd was inferior to his, the Grand Leader was very gentle, but as Witt's popularity grew, the Grand Chief's jealousy caused him to start targeting Witt in certain matters, but he didn't say anything about it. Witt could see the subtleties, but because of his authority and the fact that he was a good leader, he didn't want to tear his face apart.

Although the delicate relationship between Witt and the Grand Leader has always existed, time is like flowing water, and the invasion of a group of uninvited guests has broken the long-lasting tranquility and comfort of the cave, bringing a new existential crisis to the cave people.

Grief and sorrow are far away and happy to live here, and the old and young are in the same house. is to live and work happily, how can you ever know that you are not invited?

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